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Buenos Aires 2001. In a supermarket in the suburbs a chinese family decides to close the market for the fear of the looting being committed throughout the city. The days pass by and the family tries to keep their normal lives but the fear of outside lurking breaks in their family life, over and over.
On the assembly line red cans go by. The worker repeats the same sequence of movements. One day, he takes a can from the line and reads the instructions for use. Acting and working are industrial exercises. Everything that needs to be said, is said in the locker room.
Marta lives in complete isolation, Maya settles nearby. Once the boundaries between them are dissolved, an unexpected ritual will transform both.
Around the fire, six figures are found. One of them starts a journey.
After a party, Agos and Ren leap trough time into a strange dimension in wich they remember to have been before.
ABUBAKAR is 46 years old and participates in the Zikr, ritual dances performed by Chechen Sufi Muslims. At each Zikr he reaches a state of ecstasy and for ABUBAKAR it’s an exorcism, a form of liberation from everything that his people have suffered over so many years of occupation.
The presence of his mother, his wife and his nine children make ghosts from the past and present reappear: stories of the 1948 deportation, his daughters under threat from kidnappings, the city of Grozny in the present day, lights, sounds, landscapes, dark faces behind dilapidated walls. All of this brings memory to life mixing it with reality.
It is the everyday reunion that a Chechen makes with two pillars of his society, faith and culture, embodied in the Zikr where the sacred merges with the profane.
ABUBAKAR defines it as an act of resistance where they reunite with their dead and their pain through dance, music and prayer.
Apparently, according to some verses of The Internationale, the socialism would be something like a paradise full of brothers and sisters.
For an entire year, a small town up northeast Argentina undertakes the construction of a hotel. Young Isabel goes through the first-hand experience of a clash of cultures.
A synchronized swimming team welcomes to the new member.
Patagonia. A small valley in the Andes Mountains. Four women alone. Four unique ways to live their spirituality.
A documentary portrait of the film distributor Pascual Condito and the world of Argentine cinema. Tired of the difficult moment he is going through with his distribution company, is thinking over a crucial decision that will allow him to continue safely in the world of film until the end of his days.
